Swami B. V. Tripurari Live Q&A; August 18, 2024: Is Vraja-Bhakti Transcendental Paganism?
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Questions on today’s Swami call:
0:00 Does the stage of unsteady devotional practice (anisthita bhajana kriya) manifest differently in eastern and western practitioners?
00:09:20 In my understanding, true bliss can only be experienced in love, and love requires a lover and a beloved (asraya and visaya). Still it is said that there is ananda in Brahman. Can you explain this?
00:34:15 With the simplicity, lack of majesty, and focus on nature and animals in Vraja-bhakti, could we say that Gaudiya Vaisnavism is a suddha-sattvic form of paganism?
00:38:00 When jivas are manisted from the Viraja, what is the cause of that, as they do not have previous samskaras?
00:58:07 Tomorrow is Lord Balarama’s appearance day. Would you like to share something about that?
Questions/topics on today's Swami call:
Lord Balarama and the sandhini-sakti
It appears that Nityananda Prabhu does not manifest vatsalya-bhava as much as he does as Lord Balarama. What could be the reason for that?
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Questions on today's Swami call:
0:00 Dandavat pranams, Maharaja. My question is, why did Srila Sridhara Maharaja not like the phrase “thank you”?
00:13:23 What does it mean that some rasas are incompatible?
00:25:11 Does Bhagavad-gita 9.14 explain how we can worship Sri Krishna with love despite...
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